Did you know that the United States Navy had a large pilot-training school here in Iowa City during World War II?
Meet two young men from Michigan – Sterry B. Williams and William G. Parfet. Thanks to a digitized version of a rare Kodak 8mm color movie, we can enjoy a quick trip to Iowa City in July 1943. Family records indicate that these two pilots-to-be started their three-month assignments in Iowa City on May 6, 1943, and completed their work on July 27, 1943.
Williams & Parfet have just completed their 3-month assignment here at the U.S. Navy Pre-Flight School, and this “home movie” gives us a beautiful glimpse of what it was like to be a part of this historic, yet little-known, part of Iowa City & SUI history.
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